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FOI Topics and Links of the Week

December 23rd, 2009  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in Android, Book, cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, iphone  |  2 Comments

As Phones Do More, They Become Targets of Hacking. The NY Times observes that as computing — and especially commerce — moves onto mobile devices, security threats are growing. “It feels a lot like it did in 1999 in desktop security … People are using the mobile Web and downloading applications more than ever before, […]

Why the PC matters

June 18th, 2009  |  by z  |  published in Book, Future of the Internet, iran cyberwar  |  5 Comments

One less examined piece of what’s going on in Iran this week goes beyond the use of Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms — beyond what people can do with a basic browser.  And that’s the role of the humble PC — the personal computer, whether Windows, Mac, or GNU/Linux. What makes the PC so crucial […]

Facebook’s privacy storm

February 18th, 2009  |  by z  |  published in Book, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Web 2.0 platforms  |  12 Comments

Some thoughts on the Facebook terms of service privacy storm: Facebook and other social networks have an especially tricky time in this zone, since so much user data is relational.  You upload a photo of you and me; I tag it with your name.  I leave Facebook — does your name disappear from the photo […]

Do we need a new Internet?

February 17th, 2009  |  by z  |  published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity, news  |  2 Comments

John Markoff’s article in the NYT about Internet vulnerabilities and projects like Stanford’s Clean Slate has been getting a lot of attention, including a thoughtful response from David Isenberg.  David’s right that a lot of the ideas in the NYT piece echo my book’s thesis.  Here’s my reply to David: Suppose that we agree on […]

Kindle 2.0

February 9th, 2009  |  by z  |  published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity, kindle  |  7 Comments

Amazon has just introduced its second-generation Kindle book substitute.  As a reader, I’m intrigued — I can download a bunch of books and apparently use it for days without a charge.  Looking at the overall IT ecosystem, I’m also intrigued, but for opposite reasons. The downloading takes place over an “EVDO modem with fallback to […]

Tenenbaum Trial and Future of the Internet

November 18th, 2008  |  by Yvette Wohn  |  published in Book, Future of the Internet  |  1 Comment

By Yvette Wohn Joel Tenenbaum was one of thousands, perhaps millions of teenagers. When he was 17, he allegedly downloaded seven songs from the Internet using a peer-to-peer file sharing program called Kazaa [Both parties appear to agree this is a downloading case, not (solely) an uploading case like many of the others]. Now, 10 […]

The appliancization of the PC

July 28th, 2008  |  by z  |  published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone  |  2 Comments

One of the more contestable claims of the FOI book is that tethered information appliances like the iPhone, that either block outside apps or subject them to much more gatekeeping by the platform vendor, will not only complement the more open PC, but overtake it — that PCs themselves will become appliancized. Already there’s talk […]

Do they long for the days of Windows?

July 26th, 2008  |  by z  |  published in Book, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, Web 2.0 platforms  |  3 Comments

Macworld is reporting that some iPhone application developers are having a difficult time adjusting to having to distribute their software only through Apple.  They’re apparently too afraid to go on the record (!), but: As developers update their applications — including bug fixes — it can take up to a week for a new version […]

Facebook hires a diplomat for its platform

July 14th, 2008  |  by z  |  published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity  |  2 Comments

Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook has poached Elliot Schrage from Google as its new VP of Communications and Public Policy, and that one of Elliot’s jobs will be to manage the Facebook development platform, where outsiders can write code to run on Facebook — from the bitten-by-a-vampire app to Scrabulous. Techcrunch speculates that this reflects […]

The iPhone app bottleneck

June 29th, 2008  |  by z  |  published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity  |  2 Comments

The Silicon Alley insider is reporting that would-be iPhone application developers — at least those who aren’t well connected — can be waiting up to six months to be accepted into the Apple iPhone developers’ program. 

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@zander_cannon @mattyglesias Well, at least in a mere 95 years you can create a derivative work from it.

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@annastansbury And much trickier to figure out, in a general workshop, what questions and discussions should be entertained among those for whom the paper topic is in their wheelhouse versus those who are approaching the topic in first impression, from other fields.

About 4 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

@annastansbury Yes, I do think there can be a similar dynamic in legal academia -- though there's more variety of format and approach since legal academia is so methodologically mosaicized. A legacy habit is the lionization of Socratic inquiry, arguments that press without much thought to tone.

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@annastansbury Thanks very much for these thoughts, and the work behind them. I'm finding myself wondering how much is portable to other disciplines, such as legal academic talks -- or to multidisciplinary gatherings.

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@TBPInvictus Why, yes, at least for Trump directly justsecurity.org/75032/litiga… @just_security will know if there are trackers for the others

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